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Editing type

…Now, you might think that once you've turned a piece of text into a 3D object,…that that was the end of it,…that you wouldn't be able to go back and change the text, but in fact you can.…If we select the object, at the bottom of the mesh pane of the properties panel,…which is the first icon, you can see we've got several controls.…We can change the text color and…if we click on this, we get the standard color picker coming up.…As we drag, you can see that color changing on the text behind.…

Let's pick a blue range, and go for something very,…very slightly blue, so moving toward the desaturated end of the spectrum here.…We can also change the font, and we can do that by…clicking the character panel button, and here's the character panel.…As you can see, we've got Helvetica Neue Condensed.…We could change this to the Myriad Black Condensed…that we looked at earlier, and that's now applied that change to our text.…

We can go even further.…If we click the Edit Source button right at the bottom of the panel,…

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9/4/2014

You don't need any 3D modeling experience to create 3D type in Photoshop. This course explains every step along the way. Steve Caplin starts with the basics: turning regular type into 3D type and then rotating it in 3D space. Subsequent topics cover extruding, inflating, beveling, and revolving type—all concepts that will help you work with other types of 3D objects. Steve uses glass-like type to illustrate the kinds issues you'll encounter with transparency, reflection, refraction, lighting, and shadows. You'll then create a 3D object from scratch, and place it on a photographic surface to produce a realistic 3D-modeled scene.